WORKSHOP ON YPC,

2019-’20

DEPARTMENT OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS

Components of the Programme

Youth Parliament Competition

Youth Parliament Quiz Contest

Youth Parliament Quiz Contest on

Character Building

Extempore speech Competition

State Level Essay Competition

YOUTH PARLIAMENT COMPETITION PROGRAMME

•Objective is to motivate the young

generation to take active interest in the
democratic process of the country
•In the School category YPC Programme has
four tiers
•In the College category YPC Programme has
three tiers
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The Competition is being organized by an Organizing Committee

comprising Official and non-official eminent personalities including
Students, Youth, Representatives of School and College Teachers
throughout the state at all levels.

SELECTION PROCESS

Eight Schools from each Block, Municipality/ Borough shall be

selected by the D.I. of Schools (Secondary Education) in
consultation with the concerned Organizing Committee.
Participating Schools may be rotated to cover the
maximum number of Schools over different years.
One Girls’ Schools shall have to be included in the
selection.
The overall performance of the School should be a
criterion for such selection.
All the Government and Government aided General
Degree Colleges of the State are entitled to participate
in the Competitions.
The concerned District Level organizing
committee will have the discretion in specific cases
to reshuffle number of participating schools if
number of schools in any particular
Block/Municipality is much higher while the same is
much lower in other Block/Municipality, keeping
the total number of participating units in a district
intact.
• One team for YPC will consist of 15 members. The limit shall
have to be maintained strictly. The Participants will be divided
into two groups one ‘Ruling’ and the other ‘Opposition’

• Students not below Class-IX to be selected.

• Duration of each Session will be of 45 minutes only. Out of this,

15 minutes may be devoted to question-answers, and the
remaining time may be utilized for discussion on Bill, Motion
and Resolution etc.
Matters related to welfare activities, defence of the
country, social justice and social security, economic
development, communal harmony, health care, student
discipline etc. may be raised in the YPC.

No direct or indirect remark or reference should be

made in the speeches so as to cast aspersion on any
political party or person etc.
Block/Municipality/Borough(for KMC only) :
1. Nominee of Municipality/Panchayat Samity/Borough
Chairman,
2. A nominee of the BDO/SDO(for Municipality)/Kolkata
Municipal Corporation(KMC),
3. A nominee of the concerned District Inspector of School(SE)

District/Division Level :

• One MLA/MP or Ex-MLA/Ex-MP;

• 3/4 persons from the Central list of judges provided by the
Department.
The Panel of Judges may be extended or formed
according to the needs of the local area.

Neutrality in judgements must be ensured by selection

of Judges from the judges panel whose residence and
place of work is outside the jurisdiction of concerned
competition.

All the Judges be briefed regarding guidelines of YPC

before hand by the organizing authority.

Absence of any particular member of the panel of

judges on the day of the competition will not vitiate the
collective decision of the judges present.
 Decision of the panel of judges in all cases will be final
and binding on all concerned.
A. Criteria for assessment of the institution
Marks
i.) Discipline and decorum 10
ii) Observance of Parliamentary procedure 15
iii) Selection of subject for questions & quality of
answers thereto 20
iv) Selection of subjects for debates 15
v) Quality of speeches delivered & standard of debates 30
vi) General Assessment 10
100
Total :
 B. Criteria- for individual assessment

i) Discipline and decorum 20

ii) Promptness & alertness 10
iii) Content of speech 30
iv) Communication skill 30
v) Overall assessment of his /her performance 10
100
Total :
Discipline and decorum (10
marks)

Observance of Parliamentary
procedure(15 marks)

Selection of subject for

questions & quality of answers
thereto(20 marks)

Selection of subjects for

debates(15 marks)
Assessment of the institution

Quality of speeches delivered &

standard of debates (30 marks)

General Assessment (10 marks)

Total (100 marks)

Sl. No.

Name of the Participants.

Role Played

Discipline and decorum(20

LEVEL: Block/ Municipality/Borough/District/Division/State.
Evaluation sheet

marks)
Promptness & alertness (10
marks)
Content of speech(30 marks)
Communication skill(30 marks)

Overall assessment of his/her

performance(10 marks)

Total (100 )Marks (In case of

Assessment of the Individual Participants
Name of the School / College _______________________ District ……………………

Secretary Total marks-40)

YOUTH PARLIAMENT COMPETITION FOR SCHOOL/COLLEGES 2019-2020
Appendix-III
 YOUTH PARLIAMENT COMPETITION FOR SCHOOL/COLLEGES 2019-2020
Evaluation sheet for Script
LEVEL: Block/ Municipality/Borough/District/Division/State.
Sl. Name of the Name of Script Assessment of Script (marks)
No Institution Writer

Content Dialogue Overall Total Marks

(20) (20) Presentation (50)
(10)

Full Signature of the Judge

Only 1st Position holders of YPC at Block/ Municipality/
Borough level are entitled to participate District level

1st and 2nd position holders at District level are entitled to

participate in the Division level .

1st and 2nd position holders at Divisional level are entitled to

participate in the State level.

However, in case of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jhargram Districts

and Siliguri Education District only 1st position holder of District
level will participate at Division level competition.
Quiz Contests are held in four tiers for School students and in
three tiers for College students.
The Quiz Contest of the School students will start from the
Block/Municipal/Borough level & for College students, the initial
stage will be the District level.
Students from Class IX to XII are entitled to participate in the
competition for School students .
The Quiz Team will consist of two students.
Normally, one selected team from an institution will participate.
Selected 1st & 2nd teams will be allowed to participate in the
next stage of the Quiz Competition.
•History of freedom struggle in India;
•Indian Constitution;
•Indian Parliament and West Bengal Legislative
Assembly in work.
•A few relevant questions may also be asked which have
no direct link with the above mentioned topics.
•The Quiz Masters will decide on the form and pattern of
questions.
•The competition will follow clock-wise and anti-clockwise
movements alternately.
•Target team will get 20 seconds for answering a question.
•If they fail, the question will go to the next team for bonus
marks.
•Bonus marks is just half of the full marks of a particular
question.

•Time allotment for answering a bonus question is also half for

the first team, thence instant answering scope for next teams.
• Quiz Masters will have the liberty to make suitable changes
for the smooth running of the programme.
All rules and regulations of this contest will be similar to that of
Youth Parliament Quiz Contest except for the subjects covered:
1.Acquaintance with India : Diversity in population.
Glorious Past : Culture, literature, art, sculpture etc. Unity in
diversity.

2.General Concept: Social reformers- Raja Rammohan Roy,

Vidyasagar, Dayananda Saraswati ; Family as an institution – its
role, objectives, advantages; Teaching of values, ethics and
morality from family: National heroes : Mahatma Gandhi, Subhas
Ch. Bose, Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, Rabindra Nath Tagore.

3.Movements : Sufi movement, Bhakti Movement, Brahmo Samaj,

Ramakrishna and Vivekananda as teachers of tolerance.
4.Rights and Duties of a citizen : Different kinds of Rights;
Different kinds of Duties; Relation between Rights and Duties;
Good Citizenship; hindrances to good citizenship; measures to
remove the hindrances to good citizenship.

5.Fundamental Rights, Duties & Directive Principles of State

Policy; Directive Principles- Source, Significance, implementations;
human rights; National and State Human Rights Commission.
6.Election Commission- composition, powers and functions;
relation between election & democracy; measures to ensure
independence of the Commission as well as free and fair election;
constitutional provisions to safeguard the interest of the religious
and linguistic minorities in India.
7. Local Self Government : Aims and Objectives of
Local Self Government; Panchayati Raj; Municipalities
and Municipal Corporation.
8.Women Empowerment : Reservation, Justification,
Possibility of changing the system.
9. Raising of consciousness : Right to Information Act;
Consumer Protection Act.
10. Achievements by Indians in Science, Literature,
Culture, Economics and Sports etc.
 EXTEMPORE SPEECH COMPETITION
Extempore Speech Competition are held in four tiers for School
students and in three tiers for College students.
Competition of the School students will start from the
Block/Municipal/Borough level & for College students, the initial
stage will be the District level.
Students from Class IX to XII are entitled to participate in the
competition for School students .
Each institution is entitled to send only
one student for the next level of
competition.
Selected 1st & 2nd participants will be
allowed to participate in the next stage of
the Quiz Competition.
Participants may be given the topics of speech from amongst
issues having a linkage with the contemporary social, economic,
welfare related problems of the country, ethical issues and
issues of general interests.
Each participant will be given 5 minutes to speak extempore
on a topic picked up by him or her.
The number of topics will be sufficiently more than the
number of participating candidates.
The candidate will be allowed two minutes prior to the
speech to think over the topic.
A warning bell will be rung at the end of 4.00 minutes and a
final continuous bell will be rung at the end of 5.00 minutes.
 After one candidate has spoken for two minutes, the next
candidate will be asked to pick up his piece of paper.
I.Unit Level (School/College):
A panel of three teachers to be nominated by the head of the
concerned Institution.

II.Block / Borough (for KMC only) / Municipal/ corporation

Level:
A panel of three judges comprising:
•A nominee of Municipality/Corporation / Panchayat Samiti /
Chairman of the Borough.
•A nominee of the B.D.O./S.D.O.(in case of
Municipality)/Kolkata Municipal Corporation (for Kolkata).
•A nominee of District Inspector of Schools (S.E.) for the
concerned district.
III.District Level / Division Level :
A panel of three/ four judges comprising:
•MLA/MP or Ex-MLA/Ex-MP.
•Two/Three persons from central judges list provided by the
Department.
IV.State Level:
A panel of three/four judges comprising from :
•MLA /MP or EX-MLA / Ex-MP.
•Eminent Teacher/Professor / Cultural Personality.

Absence of any particular member of the panel of judges on

the day of the competition on will not vitiate the collective
decision of the judges present.
Participants Medium of
Eligibility Topics of Essay
writing
Students of
classes from Bengali/English/
Unity in Diversity in India
School Class-IX to Nepali/Hindi/
(ভারতে বৈচিতযের মতযে
students Class-XII Urdu/
ঐক্ে )
Santhali

Undergraduate Social Media : its

students Bengali/English/
advantages and
College Nepali/Hindi/
disadvantages
students Urdu/
(সামাজিক্ গণমাযেতমর
Santhali
সুচৈযা ও অসুচৈযা )

Last date for Submission of Essay : 30-08-2019

Send to The Department of Parliamentary Affairs,
G-Block, 1st Floor, Writers’ Buildings, Kolkata –700 001
The envelope is to be super-scribed “STATE LEVEL ESSAY
COMPETITION, 2019-20”
Terms and Conditions
Word limit for the essays is 1500 words. If the word limit
exceeds by more than 5%, the essay will be readily rejected.
Number of words should be written at the end of the essay.
One student may participate in one language only
Students must submit their essays in their own handwriting
Plagiarism will lead to cancellation of the essay.
Credit will be given for organized and original thinking and
also for quality of presentation with precision.
An Information Sheet in pro-forma is to be enclosed with the
essay as top sheet by stapling /stitching.
Essays received without Information Sheet or received after
the last date will be rejected.
 1 Name of the Institution
2 Address of the Institution with Phone No.
3 Name of the Student
4 Father’s Name
5 Address
6 Sex
7 Date of Birth
8 Class/Year(with stream) as on 1st August, 2018
9 Contact Number of Parent/Guardian
10 e-mail id, if any
Declaration : I hereby declare that the information furnished by me above are true and correct and I also
declare that the essay which is enclosed herewith is an original writing of mine and I will abide by the Terms &
Conditions of the competition.
Signature of the student with date
CERTIFICATE
Certified that the student named above is a bonafide student of this institution which is a
Government/Government-aided school/college and the particulars furnished in row numbers 1 to 10 have been
verified from relevant records and found correct.
Place:
Date : Signature of the Head of the Institution/ Department

with date and seal